Racial Hygiene

Everyone knows that eugenics was one of the ideological pillars of Nazism. However, it continued in Europe and in the United States until the 1970’s. In the United States, more than 60,000 people were denied children under widespread campaigns of forced sterilization. In Sweden, 63,000 people were sterilized, mostly after the Second World War. The film switches deftly between the explanation of historians and the testimony of victims who continue to struggle for recognition of the harm they have suffered, which has been erased from the collective memory.